[Snowball-discuss] less than zero (enriching Italian stemmer)

[Martin Porter]

Ciao, Adriano!

This problem has come up before. The generated tables in the C/Java code
have a structure that is determined by a clever algorithm that does fast
lookups of the endings. If you add in extra endings the tables need to be
completely changed. The only way to extend the tables therefore is to alter
the snowball source, download a compile the snowball compiler, and generate
new C/Java code.

Martin



>....Well, I'd like to do something not so complicate: simply add some morphemes
>to the Italian stemmer ....